PHP Frameworks: Which PHP Framework to choose for 2014?

The article compare between popular PHP frameworks to select more crucial
framework that meet your development needs in 2014. In the article we have
discussed several PHP frameworks that meet your requirement, saves time and
efforts.

The article compare between popular PHP frameworks to select more crucial
framework that meet your development needs in 2014. In the article we have
discussed several PHP frameworks that meet your requirement, saves time and
efforts.

A PHP framework is a set of functions and class, which is used to develop PHP
application based on MVC architecture. Using a PHP Framework, one can easily cut
their development time and efforts. Because of the high performances of PHP
Frameworks these framework can be used for creating large scale web
applications. PHP Frameworks also support advance version of PHP, MVC
model architecture and works with multiple Databases that gives it an advantage
over convention PHP application development methods.

These days there are many frameworks available in PHP for developing and
running the enterprise web applications. The PHP Frameworks are evolved to make
the software development lifecycle much simple. PHP frameworks are available
which helps the developers to create applications based on MVC design pattern.
It also supports the development of applications using templates. Many database
access frameworks are also available with can be very useful in writing the code
for accessing the database.

PHP frameworks also supports the Ajax and jQuery. It can also easily generate
and consume xml data formats. New JSON formats are also supported by the PHP
environment. With the help of PHP and its frameworks one can easily develop
highly responsive web 2.0 and web 3.0 applications. These days people demands
highly interactive applications and PHP provides all the tools necessary to
develop such applications.

There are several PHP frameworks that can be used for the PHP web application
development. But selecting a suitable framework for your application in not
an easy task. Given is the list the top 10
PHP Framework for 2014.

Zend Framework: Zend framework is one of the widely
used open source PHP Framework, which is fully object oriented and works on
PHP 5. The Use-at-will architecture feature of Zend framework makes it
minimal interdependent. Zend PHP Frameworks implements the MVC model and
supports multiple databases including MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server, MariaDB,
Oracle, IBM DB2, PostgreSQL and SQLite etc.

Symfony Framework: Symfony Framework
is a free software, which is released under MIT License. Like Zend
framework, it implements the MVC application architecture that is used to
create high level web applications. Symfony Framework supports and use
various PHP open-source projects as part of the framework that including:
PHP Unit (Unit Testing Framework), Propel as ORM layers and Twing (a
templating engine) etc. It also supports Symfony YMail, Event Dispatcher
Templating.

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Cake Framework: Cake Framework is another popular PHP
Framework, which is widely used by PHP developers for creating fast and
secure PHP application. The Cake Framework is built into one of the
original PHP MVC frameworks and it required very less or no complicated
setups. Cake PHP Framework is released under MIT license that can be
perfectly used with commercial applications as well.

CodeIgniter Framework: CodeIgniter is a open source web
application development software that works on the cross platform. Using
CodeIgniter framework you need not to write the code from scratch that make
the coding faster and more reliable. It also supports various
libraries for commonly needed tasks and implements the MVC architecture.

Yii Framework: Yii can be pronounced as 'YEE', which is
again a open source software that implements the MVC application development
architecture. The Yii Framework also supports error handling and
logging features. Using Yii framework, you
can use the PHPUnit testing and Selenium open source software that is
used for the testing.

Kohana Framework:
Kohana Framework is a HMVC PHP 5 Framework that provides the rich set of
functions and classes for building a high level dynamic web application in
PHP. Kohana framework use specific libraries and tools that allows one to
extend or add new libraries. Using the framework you can also generate or
write your own peace of code in PHP. This framework is quite fast as it
works with objects and classes and has a integrated testing and debugging
tools that helps in building application very quickly.

Seagull framework:
Seagull framework is based on OOP is an open source application that allows
you to develop Web, Command line and GUI applications. The Framework has
integrated templating engines, testing tools and managed library codes for
example, it has integrated ORM for RAD. The Seagull framework is quite fast
and it supports PHP 4 and PHP 5. If you are using a Seagull Framework than
you can also take the advantage of using the basic CMS and other modules
included to get you started.

Prado Framework: Prado Framework is a
component Framework for PHP 5 that is based on the event driven programming.
PHP Rapid Application Development Object-oriented (PRADO) required a Web
server supporting PHP 5.3.0 or higher to run its applications. It is an open
source application that can be used to develop either open source or
commercial applications.

PHP on TRAX: PHP on TRAX is a
rapid application development environment that cut your development time and
allows you to reuse the existing codes and components. The framework
provides an environment to create and maintain the existing PHP web
applications.
The framework is formally know as PHP on Rails and based on Ruby on
rails. You can use this framework to create a web applications based on MVC
application architecture.

PHPSpec framework: PHPSpec framework is based on PHP 5
and it required at least PHP 5.3.1 installed on you computer to create and
run the applications.

Apart from these frameworks there are several other PHP Frameworks available
that suits your development needs. These frameworks not only cuts the
development time but also help in maintaining the existing web applications.
Most of the PHP Frameworks supports MVC Application Architecture and has
integrated libraries and open source software to provide a best development
environment.